Naked eye sunspot AR 2192

A Hand-held Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera, fitted with a Baader solar filter, was used to image the Sun. The camera was set to burst mode, ISO-100 and 1/1000s exposure at f/5.9. A burst of 3 images was capture in a small gap between the rapidly moving clouds. The images were stacked in Registax 5. The Sun was viewed through a solar viewer and the sunspot AR 2192 was an easy naked eye object. Click on the image to get a larger view:

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Huge sunspot with Bridge camera

A Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera, fitted with a Baader solar filter, was used to image the Sun. The camera was mounted on a Merlin AZ, auto-tracking mount and set to ISO 100, 1/1000s exposure and f/5.9 at maximum zoom (60x) (Equivalent to 35mm focal length of 1200mm). The best 35 of 41 images were stacked in Registax 5. Click on the image to get a larger view: